@dalias @soatok For that point to land you do need to explain why it is "entirely the wrong layer".
Because if you want to add encryption transparent to all higher layers with the goal to emulate the access safety of a physically secured network — which on the surface is what most VPNs do try to do — then it is entirely the *right* layer. It just turns out most of our problems are not shaped like that.
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nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 03:18:48 JST nadja
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nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 00:17:21 JST nadja
@soatok I am still disappointed that the cannon-sized footgun that is IPsec is … a cannon-sized footgun. I would so love for it to be decent but even at its best it's basically just as good as wireguard :blobcatcomftears:
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nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 00:28:20 JST nadja
Fun fact: Despite their keysmashes being high-entropy sources of randomness*, bottoms are not inherently good at cryptography.
Remember: Don't let your bottom do cryptography unsupervised! -
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nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 08:18:51 JST nadja
@vagina_museum I'm sure there's a really good medical reason for it, but I will still reserve being pissed at evolution for making us bleed once a month while there were other options :blobcatSipGlare:
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nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 21:24:39 JST nadja
@elilla the Jehovas Witnesses in Berlin tend to set up shop in the subway stations, and said shops are multilingual based on where they are. It's fascinating to see JW material in Arabic :D
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nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 04:27:06 JST nadja
@ildottore am i … terminally online? :blobcatfearful:
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nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 18:41:44 JST nadja
@neil or just make sure that if you're born after 2011 your email is "JaneDoe98@hoster.tld". Probably works too.
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nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 11:32:27 JST nadja
@skinnylatte @julie but yes, that must have been an extraordinary case. When I founded my company we spend about 40 Minutes at the notary and she didn't read out most of the paperwork either. In fact a not insignificant amount of time was she and I going over the paperwork and verifying that my name was written correctly on all of it (it wasn't, not even close :blobcatfearful:), which I do apprechiate!
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nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 11:29:58 JST nadja
@skinnylatte @julie Well, can't say I mind techbro startups being delayed by pedantic bureaucrats :D
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nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 11:21:50 JST nadja
@skinnylatte @julie that is … absurd. And probably malice on at least one party in that equation, especially for company foundings a notary doesn't have to read out the whole contract, just a few mandated parts. That does take a few minutes, but nowhere near as long.
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nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 11:19:14 JST nadja
@julie @skinnylatte Notaries and state officials both (in some circumstances, the latter in fewer than the former).
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nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 01:08:52 JST nadja
@jwildeboer I can imagine that most tools won't like a "primary identifier" to be the empty string (even if the spec does allow it), but yes this would work somewhat better ^^
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nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 23:34:24 JST nadja
@jwildeboer That's fair. But standards set expectations, and I've been burned too many times by the well established tooling breaking because it didn't question the standard in the right places or (wrongly) assumed that some external system would do the proper sanitation of inputs. Maybe I'm just more jaded than is warranted :)
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nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 23:12:21 JST nadja
@jwildeboer I'm really not, but I'm confronted with the problem of my name breaking software like this very often. A MRZ not trying to contain the card holder's name is much more reasonable, but I have yet to see that. In fact, everywhere I see MRZ being mentioned as useful standard it states *the exact opposite*.
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nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 22:58:33 JST nadja
@jwildeboer Having read the transliteration rules: ah right, so I should put my name in there but it doesn't fit (lenght-wise) anyway and I have to (lossly!) mangle it to be possible to put it in there to begin with ^^'
Yeah the MRZ may be an international standard, but it's one of the ones we can just let die, don't you think? ^^
Names are complicated and this standard is from the time where white europeans wrote "international" standards because it included the germans (¬ even the french). -
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nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 22:46:42 JST nadja
@jwildeboer My name is valid Latin1 :)
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nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 22:40:54 JST nadja
@jwildeboer oh also there's a bug: If a family name has spaces it encodes them incorrectly (it puts a << instead of a < in the MRZ)
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nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 22:38:58 JST nadja
@jwildeboer I put my name in, it broke
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nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 22:26:04 JST nadja
@jwildeboer that'd be the smart move, yes. :P
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nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)'s status on Monday, 06-Jan-2025 22:15:45 JST nadja
@jwildeboer the problem is people want to put names there and it is *woefully* inadequate for containing names